Keefe D (pictured), who made the bombshell confession during a taped conversation under immunity, was riding in the car with Anderson on the night Tupac was killed
Despite the myriad of conspiracy theories and attempts to solve the case of his murder, the identity of the gunman that took Tupac's life has remained a mystery for 22 years.
But the truth may have just been revealed in an interview with Tupac murder suspect Duane Keith Davis - also known as 'Keefe D'.
While filming the 10-part Netflix docuseries 'Unsolved, the Tupac and Biggie Murders', Keefe D revealed it was his nephew that pulled the trigger.
Keefe D, who made the bombshell confession during a taped conversation under immunity, said he was in the car when Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson opened fire.
Tupac, who was 25 at the time, was shot four times in the chest on September 7, 1996 while he was in Las Vegas. He died on September 13.
Problems began that day when Anderson tried to steal a Death Row Records medallion from a member of Tupac's entourage - which was affiliated with LA gang The Bloods.
Tupac and his entourage then beat up Anderson at the MGM Grand later that night after watching a Mike Tyson fight.
Anderson, who always denied he murdered Tupac, was killed in a shootout in Los Angeles two years later
Davis revealed in the Netflix docuseries that they hopped into their Cadillac to find Tupac after the beat down, knowing he was due to perform at 662 Club that night.
There were four people in the car: Terrence 'T-Brown' Brown behind the wheel, Keefe D in the front passenger seat, plus Anderson and DeAndre 'Dre' Smith in the back.
The group bought booze and waited for the rapper to show up.
Soon they heard the clamor of girls screaming 'Tupac!' and they knew the rapper had arrived.
'All the chicks was like "Tupac!", and he was like "Hey" like a celebrity, like he was in a parade,' Keefe D recalled.
'If he wouldn't even have been out the window we would have never have seen him.'
Keefe D said Brown then 'bust a U-turn' and their car pulled up next to Tupac, who was riding in the front passenger seat of his BMW alongside Suge Knight.
That's when the violence unfolded.
'I gave it to Dre and Dre was like '"no, no, no" and Lane was like - popped the dudes,' Keefe D said in the taped confession in the documentary.
'He leaned over and rolled down the window and popped them.'
Speaking months ago before the Netflix show, in a separate documentary titled 'Death Row Chronicles', Keefe D revealed he is ill and wanted to finally tell the world what happened on that sad September night.
'I was a Compton kingpin, drug dealer, I'm the only one alive who can really tell you story about the Tupac killing,' Keefe D said.
'People have been pursuing me for 20 years, I'm coming out now because I have cancer. And I have nothing else to lose. All I care about now is the truth.'
Yet at the time Keefe D still refused to name the killer, saying that he was 'going to keep it for the code of the streets'.
'It just came from the backseat bro,' he added.
But now Keefe D has finally revealed it was Anderson, sitting in the backseat just as he said, who ultimately pulled the trigger.
Anderson, who always denied he murdered Tupac, was killed in a shootout in Los Angeles two years later.
Kyle Long, the executive producer of Unsolved, is now calling for the Las Vegas police department to pursue Keefe D, according to the Daily Star.
'He went live on television and confessed to being an accessory to murder and the Las Vegas PD, as far as I know, is doing nothing about it,' said Long.
'I just think it's outrageous.'
Many had blamed fellow rapper the Notorious B.I.G, also known as Biggie Smalls, and the infamous East Coast/West Coast rivalry between their record labels.
Others believed it was really Knight, then the CEO of Death Row Records, who was supposed to die that night.
Some even claimed it was Knight himself who had put a hit on Tupac.
But, in the end, it all came down to gang rivalry.
'It was simple retaliation,' an LAPD insider told People. 'You mess with one of ours, we will mess with one of yours.
'If Orlando had never been jumped in the hotel, they never would have killed Tupac that night.'
While Tupac's death has long remained a mystery, some have always believed that both he and Knight knew who was responsible.
When a police officer asked Tupac who pulled the trigger, the rapper simply replied 'F**k you' as he lay bleeding on the Las Vegas Strip.
Some have theorized that Tupac, who had survived a shooting just two years before, thought he would live to see the day he could get revenge his own way.
'My belief is they both knew,' Dan Long, a Las Vegas Police Department detective, told People.
'The cars were two or three feet apart when the shooting occurred. Tupac was the passenger and he would have been right up against him in an extremely well-lit part of town.'
No one has ever been charged in Tupac's death.
Reader Comments
If it advertises itself as music but it ain't got a tune, it's fraud.
If only they would wake up...
The original prototype of a "rapper" was designed/promoted by Nazi/CIA elements in order to lead the black populations to embrace violence and illegal drugs. Thus incarcerating themselves and filling back up the ranks of black slaves.
The highest amount of slave labor in the world are black men in American prisons, just as planned!
Why not speak about this!?
It's all just catalyst anyway... as much, as often as needed. Tupac just got caught in the web, the trap set before him.... played into the system's hands... most people have 'issues' that get exploited, he was no different.... most people get caught in this trap, which is why it takes many turns of the wheel to complete the game.
I wouldn't say so. At least not initially. I wrote one of the first articles about so-called 'Gangster Rap' for I-D magazine at about the time of 'Straight Outta Compton' and 'PSK'. Back in those days it was more of a case of the music being such a bunch of low-upthrust, tuneless, poetry-less garbage, if you wanted over-excitable white journalists with sociology/media studies degrees from Spin and Rolling Stone to write about your stuff, you had to put some scary, urbanistic hooks together or you'd just be an onymous deejay who got no coverage and sold no records. Similarly with freelance music journalists at the time, if you're not beating the hot scoop path 24 hours a day, you're in a Wile E. Coyote situation, so the whole thing sort of ran on mutually assured scraping of the bottom of the cache barrel. 'Rock' journalists in those days had been used to writing outrageous stories about outrageous white rock stars with outageous personalities, habits and opinions, and unless you wenr back to the 1950's, there hadn't been much of a tradition of that within so-called black music. 'Gangster Rap' was an invention of the white music press. It supplied the possibility of writing about so-called black music in a personality-oriented, traditional white rock journo way. It was about stirring up controversy and selling magazines, basically.
Beloved of sloped-backed 'street' poseurs and bedroom-dwelling 'tough-guy' fetishists of the Antifa kind, Tupac shakur is the 99 cents 'Che Guevara T-shirt' of all this garbage.
Obvective Consciousness Vs Caché...
"Mom and dad were active members of the Black Panther Party."
Who gives a flying one? Your record is sh*t.
It was sad to see so many losers queuing up to become rap stars. From the outset, it pretty much went down as I said, but it was a bit like the porno industry, in that, once they'd found out they could stick two d*cks in an a***hole, the next production's got to have three d*cks in an a***hole, and the one after that four d*cks in an a***hole, and so on and so forth.
Hip Hop should have been a three-six month genre/experiment max.
Im going to go out on a limb here and say it was another African American...beyond that...who cares?
April 5, 1993 - Tupac spent 10 days in a Michigan prison for beating another rapper with a baseball bat.
October 31, 1993 - Tupac allegedly stopped to help a black motorist who he felt was being harassed by the policemen. A fight broke out and Tupac shot one policemen in the leg and the other in the buttocks. When it was determined that the policemen were intoxicated and carrying guns taken from the police evidence room, the charges were dropped.
November 18, 1993 - Shakur was arrested on the sexual abuse and sodomy charges and weapons charges in New York City. The sodomy and weapons charges were dropped. Shakur was sentenced to 11/2 - 41/2 years in prison, to which he served nine months (beginning February 14, 1995) at the Clinton Correctional Facility.
November 10, 1994 - Tupac, slated to star in the movie Meance II, punched the director Allen Hughes. He spent 15 days in prison and was replaced in the movie by Larenz Tate.
November 30, 1994, Tupac Shakur was ambushed by three black men in the lobby of a recording studio in Times Square in New York City. The men robbed him of over $35,000 in cash and jewelry and shot him five times - hitting his head, groin and hand.
April 5, 1996, Tupac was sentenced to 130 days in jail for violating the terms of his release on bail. On
September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Shakur attended the Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon boxing match. Allegedly after the match, Shakur was involved in a fight in the lobby of the MGM Hotel. After the match was over, Marion "Suge" Knight told Shakur that an alleged Crips gang member, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson was in the hotel lobby. Anderson along with other gang members had been suspected of robbing an associate of the record company, Death Row, earlier in the year. Knight, Shakur and some of his entourage assaulted Anderson in the lobby. Later that evening, Shakur was hit with four bullets from a drive-by attack while riding in a car driven by Suge Knight, Shakur died in the University of Nevada Hospital six days later. Although there was a lot speculation about the murder being stimulated by an ongoing rivalry between gangs associated with east and west coast rap recording companies, the murder was never officially solved.
Yeah, and this person was to be a sort of role model for lots of kids....Promoted by MTV and other "big players".
policemen were intoxicated and carrying guns taken from the police evidence room,
Just WOW...Really?..
robbed him of over $35,000 in cash and jewelry
What kind of an A-hole runs around with this much cash on them?! Usually its someone in the drug business.
I really don't understand the appeal of this man to so many. Is it the idea of a black rebel?.."Fuck the police" sorta thing? (not that I love them, lol, just saying)
My hero's were the likes of Chuck Yeager, Werner Von Braun (Seig heil or not) and dudes like that when I was a kid. Bravery and brains IMO. But I guess if you grow up in a sheithole ghetto your views of "hero" are different. But what gets me is its NOT only ghetto blacks that love this guy, its (or was) lots of young kids from middle class suburbia.
So did they really organically like him and his image, or were they programmed to do so by endless TV/radio glamorization?
A-hole-with-a-thousand-faces-lives-by-sword-and-dies-by-sword.